Commercial Construction Risk Manager

Turner & Townsend; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Risk Manager to join our growing team. You will lead risk identification, quantification, and mitigation for large-scale construction programs across multiple sectors.

The role requires deep knowledge of risk management, strong stakeholder skills, and the ability to integrate risk with cost and schedule control. On-site presence may be required based on client needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction-related field.
• Minimum 3 years of applicable experience.
• Experience in procurement and contract management on construction projects.
• Experience in Program Management or Program Controls environments.
• Deep knowledge of risk identification and mitigation techniques.
• Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
• Understanding of construction contracts, commercial models and delivery methods.
• Proficiency in process mapping, root cause analysis and value-stream mapping.
• Familiarity with ARM, Predict, Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of risk triggers to profile risk costs and budget drawdown.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning.
• Monitor risk exposure and remaining risk budget.
• Collaborate with contractors to assess and align risks.
• Produce timely risk reports for stakeholder communication.
• Conduct quantitative risk assessments for cost and schedule.
• Develop and improve risk management processes and plans.
• Lead end-to-end risk management across multiple projects.
• Integrate risk management with program controls teams.

Skills

Risk identification

Facilitation

Negotiation

Contract knowledge

Process mapping

Analytical

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or related field

Tools

ARM

Predict

Tableau

Job description

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is looking for a Risk Manager to join our growing team. The ideal individual will be an experienced risk professional that has supported large scale construction projects.

The successful candidate will bring experience supporting the delivery of construction and capital projects within one or more of Turner & Townsend's key markets, including data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, and energy & natural resources. Exposure to complex projects, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary teams across these sectors is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
• Work with contractors to assess contractors held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
• Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat and opportunity status.
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
• Initiate a proactive approach to the review, development and improvement of risk management services for the client.
• Undertake end-to-end project risk management practices on multiple projects/programs.
• Undertake the creation of risk management plans and processes in adherence to client requirements, processes, policies, and frameworks.
• Conduct risk reviews at regular intervals, identify and analyze, determine response plans, ensure that project and program risk profiles are being monitored and reported.
• Lead and run a comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment (QCRA & QSRA) process is delivered.
• Establish integration of the risk management function within the program and project controls team, with direct touch points to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
• Work proactively and collaboratively with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities.
• Provide opportunities to facilitate the transfer of knowledge within the immediate risk team, to the greater project controls team, and to the client. The transfer of knowledge may include informal one-on-one discussions with client stakeholders and more formal presentations to clients and colleagues.
• Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste (both in terms of speed and cost).
• Collaborate on the supplier performance management program including the collection of performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
• Demonstrate a level of support to expert witnesses in arbitral or ligation processes.
• Lead, manage, and carry out construction stage contract and claims management.
• Carry out assessment of contractual claims in accordance with the contract.
• Provide strategic and contractual advice on disputes and related resolution issues.
• Carry out change management and construction stage cost control.
• Supervise the measurement and valuation of completed works and variations.
• Manage the settlement of final accounts with contractors
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• Minimum 3 years of applicable experience
• Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience.
• Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment
• Deep knowledge and experience with risk identification, facilitation and techniques.
• Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
• In-depth understanding of construction contracts, commercial models, and delivery methods.
• Proficient in process mapping, root causes analysis, problem solving, and value-stream mapping.
• Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau
• Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer centric.

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*

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